The Architect’s Playbook: An Elite Culture, Coaching & Leadership Intensive

Overview

Let’s be honest: modern educators and coaches don’t need more abstract theories or passive lecture slides. You want something visceral, rapid, and instantly deployable.

We need to set the tone of the room before students even walk in: high-octane energy, cutting-edge neuro-cognitive games, and practical shortcuts that make students sprint to class because it feels like a breath of fresh air.

Hosted by international performance coach and 20-year veteran PE teacher Nick Haywood, this high-octane, 1-day masterclass is completely different.  Movement and theory-based workshops designed to give you a brand-new vocabulary, psychological prompts, and cutting-edge neuro-cognitive games that will change the entire energy of your gym or oval.

Nick isn’t an academic consultant flying in from a corporate boardroom. He’s a practitioner who lives your exact reality—he knows exactly what it feels like to have a whistle around his neck at 8:30 AM and a busy family waiting for him at 5:30 PM.

This  workshop is designed to bridge the gap between elite professional sport (leveraging Nick’s work with pro basketball and football teams) and in-the-trenches education.

You will step into a Brave Space within the first 60 seconds and walk away with a ready-to-deploy toolkit to:

  • Change the Tone

    Run cutting-edge, neuro-cognitive games that drive immediate student engagement and focus.

  • Align Character & Competence

     Manage modern bottlenecks like fractured focus, performance anxiety, and entitlement to build self-regulating teams.

  • Master the Pipeline

     Implement a universal equation—Habits-Behaviours-Culture-Results—that optimizes your gym, your teams, and your personal life.

This isn’t standard professional development; it’s a structural rewrite. Elevate and restock  your toolkit so you can become a highly effective educator and/or coach and go home with enough energy, calm, and clarity left over to enjoy your actual life. Ask questions. Challenge ideas. Go deeper than a keynote ever allows.

This pre-conference blends leadership learning with genuine behind-the-scenes access – the kind rarely available outside an elite sporting organisation.

You won’t just hear how high performance works. You’ll see it, question it, ask questions. Challenge ideas. Go deeper than a keynote ever allows. and experience it inside the same environment where standards are built and reinforced every day.

PHASE AP 2026 – Hanoi

Date and Time

13 November 2026

Location
United Nations International School of Hanoi

Investment

Early Bird – $250USD (before 28 September 2026)
Regular – $300USD (on or before 16 October)
Last Minute – $350USD (after 16 October)

+ 4% registration fee

There are combo tickets available to attend the PHASE AP conference (pre-conference + main conference) – see registration page.

Note: You do not need to register for the main PHASE Conference to attend this one day workshop.

Important Note: The “Go or no go” date for pre-conferences is 18th September 2026. Please do not book nonrefundable travel before this date. Pre-conferences will only go ahead if we have reached a defined minimum enrollment.

Please register early for pre-conferences you are especially keen on a particular pre-conference.

If you have registered for a pre con in the unlikely event it does not go ahead, you will be 100% refunded or can switch to another pre-conference.

Presenter

Nick Haywood

Cultural & Leadership Coach and Consultant, CHanGe

Nick Haywood has over 20 years working with people and teams on CULTURE & RELATIONSHIPS, ensuring connection before content, and a balance in life. Currently working with and helping the culture and leadership areas with NBA teams, NBL team in Australia, AFL captains and teams in Australia both men and women, along with mentoring many young professionals and teachers across the globe, Nick’s passion for helping leaders become better is forever growing. Coming from an Outdoor Education background working at a beautiful and challenging school in Tasmania, Australia – he has been brave enough to try and test and fail at a variety of ideas and challenges with many different groups in a crazy range of settings.

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